In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…
It's graduation season and across the land schools are saying goodbye to students and students are moving along and into…
It started with a tweet from yesterday morning: So off to google where I found the same inaccurate one-line biography…
Update: 15 October 2020 I've heard from Lyn who is the Project Lead for ‘Away from the Western Front’. ‘No…
They had all watched him die, in a foreign landA warning to others from the High Command. Forfeits medals (sentenced…
I've been looking for a particular poem for a while now. When someone used the hashtag #SherlockPoems in a Twitter…
I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
Rain is no respecter of persons the snow doesn't give a soft white damn Whom it touches -e.e. cummings, Viva,…
The Old Year The Old Year's gone away To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day Nor…